Klay Thompson’s most interesting summer continues: He’s worth $16M a year now? What it means for the Warriors and for the Kevin Love talks

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Tim Kawakami

* Straight from today’s Merc website (MY VERSION)/

Klay Thompson, through no actual recent action of his own, just became one of the most interesting—and interested—men in the NBA world.

Thompson isn’t due to hit restricted free agency until next summer, and LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony are this year’s current obsessions.

But Thompson’s market just exploded right before our eyes anyway.
Essentially, the Warriors’ three-year veteran just became a $16-million-a-year value, in a flash of other people’s contract agreements.

How nice for Thompson, right? He spends the first part of summer as the player Minnesota most wants—and the Warriors to this point will not surrender–in trade talks for Kevin Love.

And this week Thompson sees two other guys re-set the price for multi-dimensional young wing players in a boom-boom market.

Yes, it all could have some very significant repercussions for his Warriors situation and for the Warriors’ roster two or three years into the future.